Scott, MTDBD can be used as a good source for hints, but best to always verify that info by checking and using the primary resources. Barb On Monday, August 23, 2021, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thank you, Barbara. This does look like the earliest use of a special car > - four years later than indicated in Day By Day. Fears got it from Willis > (the attribution is in his text) and apparently Willis found this letter > but apparently forgot the date it was written. Near the bottom of the page > Miki sent me is a note that Susie was four years old at this time - 1876 > not 1880. > > On 8/23/21 3:16 PM, Barbara Schmidt wrote: > >> Scott, >> >> Rest Willis does quote the passage about Livy always going by special car >> hereafter and sources it to a June 17, 1880 letter to Lilly Warner. It is >> online here — >> https://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL >> 01814.xml;query=Warner;searchAll=;sectionType1=;sectionType2 >> =;sectionType3=;sectionType4=;sectionType5=;style=letter;brand=mtp#1 >> >